Ubuntu Live CD

timbim_2

If I boot a system off a live CD of Ubuntu, this will not require me to install as an OS, load the drivers for my components again or change any settings will it?

hannoja

Nope, you can just try it out without installing anything. This might explain it better, or this.

If you like it, you can install it alongside Windows and choose which you want to fire up.

trish06

Hi
you can just try the cd first to see if it works and then if you like you can install it later
heres the ubuntu forum,there great guys there if you run into any trouble

http://ubuntuforums.org/

timbim_2

I'd love to get away from Windows, but I have to have XP on my machine for network connectivity reasons.

devizes18193

thats 1 of the things i like with live cd's boot it up and you will see what if any problems you will get with printers etc makes the de scion to install or not an informed one I tried it on my laptop and can conect fine although i have printer issues , personally it's great

fwor

timbim wrote: »

I have to have XP on my machine for network connectivity reasons.

The current generation of Linux distros are all pretty good in this respect, in that they can read from and write to Windows shared folders on other PCs, etc.

However, I'm guessing maybe you use a VPN or some remote access program which is not available under Linux?

esbo

timbim wrote: »

If I boot a system off a live CD of Ubuntu, this will not require me to install as an OS, load the drivers for my components again or change any settings will it?

No it can be run off the CD, there is an option to install it as well though I believe.
I tried it and had a lot of problems installing it because it did not like my graphics
card, however I found an older version which worked OK.
I now have it installed on my slave drive which I can boot from if I want to or just boot
normally into windows.
Surfing on it it just the same as I use Firefox for windows and that is the browser it
uses.
I have not used it much as I am just getting familiar with it. The main problem is
that, for example, my poker site does not do a Linux version of the software,
however there is a Windows Emulator you can run it in apparently.
Also all my mail and documents and other programs are on Windows.
Still it is well worth having a look at. The trouble is you become familar with
the Windows way of doing stuff.

fiish

The latest version of Ubuntu comes with a Wubi installer which allows you to install Ubuntu as a program in Windows. You end up with a dual-boot system where Ubuntu's partition is stored as a file in your Windows partition. It is oh-so-slightly slower than installing Ubuntu in a proper formatted partition but the difference isn't really unnoticable.

The cool thing is if you decide not to keep Ubuntu there's no formatting or repartitioning to do - just unstall it in Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features in Vista) and you're done.

devizes18193

fiish wrote: »

The latest version of Ubuntu comes with a Wubi installer which allows you to install Ubuntu as a program in Windows. You end up with a dual-boot system where Ubuntu's partition is stored as a file in your Windows partition. It is oh-so-slightly slower than installing Ubuntu in a proper formatted partition but the difference isn't really unnoticable.

The cool thing is if you decide not to keep Ubuntu there's no formatting or repartitioning to do - just unstall it in Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features in Vista) and you're done.

That's how I installed mine , and the uninstall,works the same in xp

msun

Installing Ubuntu under Windows using "Wubi" works fine but I did notice one issue when it comes to Windows backup. One of the files (the large image file root.disk under c:\ubuntu) seems difficult to copy or backup as it is reported as being far larger than the actual file size as seen by Windows Explorer.

I have also seen reported issues when running defrgmentation and/or checkdisk with a Wubi installation of Ubuntu present.

So I chose to run Ubuntu in its own small partition "along-side" Windows as a dual boot setup. The partition manager which is part of the Ubuntu installation CD seems to works very well.

Bob63

Another option is to use the free version of VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems. http://www.virtualbox.org/

This allows you to run pretty much any operating system as a guest within Windows, Linux, MacOS or Solaris. So you can run both Vista and Linux at the same time, but unlike the Live CD solution you can make changes to the Linux OS such as install extra packages or updates.

Mike